Gegen das Verstummen: Texthermeneutische Reflexionen zu Ironie in der Textsortenwelt des Gettos Litzmannstadt

Immediately after the National Socialist seizure of power, a comprehensive social, legal and existential exclusion of Jewish actors began. Countering the shattering of previous understandings of the world and its norms became an existential challenge as well as a necessary need. An important strategy was the use of humor and irony; also for the people of the Litzmannstadt ghetto. From a text-hermeneutic, cultural-linguistic and linguistic-philosophical perspective, taking into account the g...